Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 16, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 7n i 7 Winnipeg free january 11 a j inn pegs via maintenance Centre dropped by tories by Brian Cole the Mulroney government has dropped plans for a via rail maintenance Centre for Winni Peg and resurrected several Passen Ger including the super Conti in making the announcements yes transport minister Don Mazankowski said there is no use for the Centre and the government could see no reason for building a via maintenance Centre already under construction in Toronto will be completed and the Montreal depot will be a proposed depot for Halifax also will be dropped along with the Winni Peg maintenance the decisions had been rumoured for the last few the via train that now leaves nation Winnipeg daily for Edmonton will now continue its run to five other routes in Eastern Canada also will be Mike via spokesman in said the decision to drop the maintenance which would have employed 200 Doest mean that it May not be built Williams said his understanding of the ministers announcement is that there is no need to build the Centre during a press conference in Otta Mazankowski also announced the governments intention to turn via into a Crown corporation and to upgrade and modernize its Vias current Board of directors is to be replaced by a Threeman panel which will join via president Pierre a statement from the minister the panel includes Hugh Nicholas Vincent and Roch the minister said the resurrection of six old passenger train lines throughout Canada is the fulfilment of election promises made by the the move is expected to Cost about million and create jobs directly or indirectly across Cana but Federal opposition critic Lloyd Axworthy and a local Union spokes Man decried the cancellation of the maintenance its a major setback for Winni Axworthy said in an interview from Ottawa last Axworthy said the decision Means Winnipeg has lost a Chance to lock up the position As Vias maintenance Headquarters in Western can now it could be transferred else he explaining that eventually via could decide to build in he said the move was just one More insult to coming after a decision not to proceed with a research where is health minister Jake George Minaker and Leo Duguay Axworthy asked in refer ence to the minister responsible for Manitoba and two of the cites i Hope people in the province Start to get mad about i dont know How Many More insults the Mulroney government can throw at he cynical vacuum svs11m Isom Koovit proudly Hoover to a Woven Central vacuum system the ovation Central vacuum system from hoover1 takes vacuuming one step further it is the and easier Way to clean your it requires Only unobtrusive a lightweight cleaning Wand and and an Sutof therway motor to replace More traditional professional information and a demonstration of the Hoover ovation Central vacuum system available at selected woolco 6 loot Bush idol Hoover quadra hex agitator me patented Hoover Ouadi Alloi Agi 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was to he said the former Federal govern ment made the announcement with out taking certain details into a including a City desire to eventually build a Southwest transportation corridor on the planned construction Axworthy said the initial plan called for maintenance centres to be built in Toronto and he said he intervened and the Playl was changed to include depots in Winnipeg and Halifax the first time via had spent any Money from its capital budget outside of the Montreal As Mazankowski announced restoration of train routes Between Montreal and via Sherbrooke and Saint John Montreal to Sudbury via Ottawa Montreal to Sherbrooke Toronto to via Peter Borough and Mont Joli to As in will take Back opera Tion of some Remote services the Pas Lynn hears Nakina and Sioux out Thunder israeli inflation reaches from the news services Jerusalem israels inflation soared to a record per cent in the sixth year in a Row the nation registered triple digit Infra the Central Bureau of Statis tics announced it also announced the lowest monthly inflation rate in 18 putting decembers at per the Low rate resulted from a wage Price freeze imposed 4 by the government of prime minister Shi Mon but finance minister Yitzhak Modai expressed caution about the december figure and said the governments austerity Mea sures have not been Strong two killed in blast London two men were killed and two injured in an explosion on the Phillips Petroleum Oil Rig Glo mar Arctic ii in the North the Oil company said today the explosion occurred last night in a ballast pump where the men were working in the Joanne Oil Field about Midway Between Britain and the two injured men Are in stable condition in riot cleanup begins Victoria prisoners at Wilkin son Road jail began cleaning up the mess they made during a weekend riot Over the Quality of their Warden John Gillingham said Small groups of prisoners began cleaning up yesterday and who earlier in the Day had refused to enter the were going in briefly to 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